Essay On Teacher-Student Relationship

The teacher-student interaction is one of the most important relationships a student must build in their school with his/her teacher. Not only does a children spend most of their time with their teacher but having a good relationship with the teacher is crucial in a student’s academic success. Theories have been made that the relationship teachers and students share are affected by the gender of the teacher in addition to the gender of the student. Some beliefs researches have about this issue is that “male students have more interaction opportunities with their teachers and are more frequently called on and responded to in the classroom than females” (K. Krkovic et al., 2014). Past literature I’ve read agreed with this opinion especially with female teachers in …show more content…
In this section they discovered “that a female teacher has a positive but small effect on the test scores of girls… Also that assignment to a female teacher reduces the test scores of boys” (Dee, 2007) Even though what they found was small it still created a gender difference in the results. In addition to that finding, it was also viewed that if female students were given a female math teacher it significantly lowered their achievement. There was also negative effects for boys’ achievement of assignment to a female teacher but if differ among the subjects. It affected boys more to have a female math teachers than it did for girls to have a female math teacher. In this study gender interactions between teachers and students have a considerably effect on students educational outcomes. It can be said that a teacher-student interactions affect both gender on educational success positively and negatively. Thomas S. Dee wanted his results to present “that the gender interactions between students and teachers are consequential and that it would be worthwhile to know more about why such student-teacher interactions matter.” (Dee,